The music is distributed in a DRM free mp3 format, so I can't see why I wouldn't be able to skip them. Also, from what I've read the ads are only at the beginning and end of songs, and 4 weeks after you download the version with the ad you get a version without the ad for free. Personally, I am seriously considering trying it if they can get any good artists.
I've been running Feisty with Beryl for going on 2 months now and since the day I installed it Feisty has been the most stable OS I have ever used, and that includes a few questionable OSX installations.
As for Beryl's usefulness it is great for converting windows zombies, and honestly it makes my desktop feel much more "organic". Using OSX, or to a lesser degree windows or Linux w/o Beryl makes me feel like I am staring at a picture of a desktop and its easy to get lost in it, whereas with Beryl I can sort of "feel" my desktop. Its hard to explain.
And of course the expose function is really nice to have.
Yes, I did some research on the topic last year and it seems that Texas doesn't enforce that clause in order not to dirty their image. If they were to enforce it they would be challenged, and if they took it all the way to the Supreme Court they would lose there, so rather than going through all that they just keep the clause for the warm fuzzy feeling it gives them, but don't bother to enforce it.
But then in Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser Justice Burger said that the Tinker ruling only applies to "political speech".
Still, I think taking things this far outside the classroom really pushes the limits. Particularly because a lot of what this law is seeking to stop is arguably a form of political speech, particularly criticism of teachers.
FIRST is ok, I did it for two years, but it isn't something that most/. readers would find terribly interesting to participate in.
Really, the name says it all. "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology". The program does all of that, and it is great for getting kids who would otherwise never have such opportunities involved in some fun stuff.
What FIRST is NOT however, is a robotics competition. The years I participated the rounds were 2-3 minutes long, and 20 to 30 seconds of that time were dedicated to autonomous operation. Most teams didn't even try to do anything during the "autonomous period", or they simply had their robot drive forward for 5 seconds then spin circles, or something similarly uninteresting. The "programming" was all done inside of a function that was provided, manipulating variables that were provided. No direct access to either input, or most particularly to output. Where the wiring was concerned the prescribed method was to plug all of the provided parts together in accordance with the manual. "Custom circuits" were sort of allowed, although they had to undergo a complicated inspection process, and were under no conditions whatsoever allowed to interface directly with any motors/actuators/etc. Basically no one used "custom circuits", except a few of the teams that had professional engineers building their "robots" for them while they stood on the sidelines.
One particular incident stands out in my memory: During a practice round just before the finals one of the teams we were teamed up with broke a mechanism on their robot's arm. But their "mentor" who had designed and built the robot was out to lunch. One of the kids was crying, while the rest of them just stood around with no idea what to do. We had to fix their robot for them.
Anyway, don't get me wrong, FIRST is a great way to inspire kids, one of our team members went from working at a fast food restaraunt to going off to some game design school (which I was skeptical of, but I talked to him the other day and it seems to be working out ok). But as a "robotics competition" FIRST is way overrated.
Yeah, I can just see how it would be a good idea to "sweep the whole region" that the Tamil Tigers control with a helicopter. Then once they locate the transmitter they can contact the local authorities and ask them to arrest the terrorists for their illegal transmission.
You can't expect the RIAA to do anything except "maintain their share at the expense of everyone else." Thats their job. The point is that they won't be able to maintain their share, because they insist on attempting to perpetuate an obsolete business model. When your customer can get your product/services cheaper elsewhere they will.
Its funny, the RIAA is sort of the symbol of big business to many of us, but yet they are becoming victims of their own capitalist system.
I don't mean to suggest anything, but hypothetically, someone could go through and compile a list of politicians who support the DMCA, then find any content helpful to their campaigns on YouTube or whatever, and spoof takedown notices for that content. Then go to the politician's own website, find any videos they have, and send the politician himself takedown notices for those, preferably in the name of the politician's constituents. Then go the site of any organization which supports the politician and spoof more takedown notices in the politician's name. This way you create a huge mess for said politicians to clean up, and all as a result of their beloved DMCA.
What is really needed is a way for people with verified credentials to approve certain content in articles, so that when new content is added the average reader can tell which content has been "approved of", and which content has not. If you just do it by version, then when Dick Cheney dies of a heart attack and I go in and add that to the article about him it suddenly "invalidates" the entire article until either a reader looks back in the version history (which the average reader has no idea how to do) and compares the two to see what was added, or until someone with the all mighty credentials comes along and "approves" it.
Whether we should rely on people just because they have credentials is a completely different question...
"Do you think the NYPD spontaneously decided to spy on democrats"
Do I think the NYPD spontaneously decided to try to prevent riots in NYC? I'm pretty sure thats their job. The number of people who hate the Bush administration happens to be greater than just about any other population of "haters", and as liberals (please note that I consider myself a liberal, and no fan of the Bush administration) they seem to be rather succeptible to mob mentality, and getting carried away.
Consider the 1999 WTO Conference - "The conclusion by many in Seattle was that the WTO convention was not worth hosting due to the economic damage (although minimal) caused by the protests. Controversy over the city's response to the protests resulted in the resignation of Seattle police chief Norm Stamper, and arguably played a role in Schell's loss to Greg Nickels and Mark Sidran in the 2001 mayoral primary election." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTO_Ministerial_Confe rence_of_1999_protest_activity
Most people don't like losing their jobs, completely aside from the fact that the NYPD was just doing theirs (overzealously perhaps, but I really don't see some "evil Bush administration plot" here).
I have a desktop on a mobile cart with a UPS running Dapper. I unplug its network cable daily, and I haven't rebooted that machine in at least a month. Also I have three computers running Ubuntu (Dapper on the mobile desktop, Edgy on my laptop, and Feisty on this, my main desktop) and Linux compatibility was never a consideration in buying the hardware. In fact I hadn't even heard of Linux when I built the first two. As far as I know the only hardware I own that Ubuntu doesn't support out of the box is my Creative Zen Touch, which I was foolish enough to install the MTP firmware on (and it works just fine after a bit of tweaking).
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In the myspace linked above I'm seeing 17,071 friends. Thats quite a few less than 160,000.....
The music is distributed in a DRM free mp3 format, so I can't see why I wouldn't be able to skip them. Also, from what I've read the ads are only at the beginning and end of songs, and 4 weeks after you download the version with the ad you get a version without the ad for free. Personally, I am seriously considering trying it if they can get any good artists.
Thats not total loss, thats the change in value relative to the Euro.
So wait, are you telling me one company is going to have access to more information than any other company!?! No!
I've been running Feisty with Beryl for going on 2 months now and since the day I installed it Feisty has been the most stable OS I have ever used, and that includes a few questionable OSX installations. As for Beryl's usefulness it is great for converting windows zombies, and honestly it makes my desktop feel much more "organic". Using OSX, or to a lesser degree windows or Linux w/o Beryl makes me feel like I am staring at a picture of a desktop and its easy to get lost in it, whereas with Beryl I can sort of "feel" my desktop. Its hard to explain. And of course the expose function is really nice to have.
and test it out! Oh wait...
Is there any law that says you have to tell the guy taking the computer away there is a bomb in the computer? Whatever, it makes life interesting.
Yes, I did some research on the topic last year and it seems that Texas doesn't enforce that clause in order not to dirty their image. If they were to enforce it they would be challenged, and if they took it all the way to the Supreme Court they would lose there, so rather than going through all that they just keep the clause for the warm fuzzy feeling it gives them, but don't bother to enforce it.
If you can run an operating system in a virtual machine I don't see why you can't do the same with a train.
But then in Bethel School District No. 403 v. Fraser Justice Burger said that the Tinker ruling only applies to "political speech". Still, I think taking things this far outside the classroom really pushes the limits. Particularly because a lot of what this law is seeking to stop is arguably a form of political speech, particularly criticism of teachers.
FIRST is ok, I did it for two years, but it isn't something that most /. readers would find terribly interesting to participate in.
Really, the name says it all. "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology". The program does all of that, and it is great for getting kids who would otherwise never have such opportunities involved in some fun stuff.
What FIRST is NOT however, is a robotics competition. The years I participated the rounds were 2-3 minutes long, and 20 to 30 seconds of that time were dedicated to autonomous operation. Most teams didn't even try to do anything during the "autonomous period", or they simply had their robot drive forward for 5 seconds then spin circles, or something similarly uninteresting. The "programming" was all done inside of a function that was provided, manipulating variables that were provided. No direct access to either input, or most particularly to output. Where the wiring was concerned the prescribed method was to plug all of the provided parts together in accordance with the manual. "Custom circuits" were sort of allowed, although they had to undergo a complicated inspection process, and were under no conditions whatsoever allowed to interface directly with any motors/actuators/etc. Basically no one used "custom circuits", except a few of the teams that had professional engineers building their "robots" for them while they stood on the sidelines.
One particular incident stands out in my memory: During a practice round just before the finals one of the teams we were teamed up with broke a mechanism on their robot's arm. But their "mentor" who had designed and built the robot was out to lunch. One of the kids was crying, while the rest of them just stood around with no idea what to do. We had to fix their robot for them.
Anyway, don't get me wrong, FIRST is a great way to inspire kids, one of our team members went from working at a fast food restaraunt to going off to some game design school (which I was skeptical of, but I talked to him the other day and it seems to be working out ok). But as a "robotics competition" FIRST is way overrated.
Yeah, I can just see how it would be a good idea to "sweep the whole region" that the Tamil Tigers control with a helicopter. Then once they locate the transmitter they can contact the local authorities and ask them to arrest the terrorists for their illegal transmission.
You can't expect the RIAA to do anything except "maintain their share at the expense of everyone else." Thats their job. The point is that they won't be able to maintain their share, because they insist on attempting to perpetuate an obsolete business model. When your customer can get your product/services cheaper elsewhere they will.
Its funny, the RIAA is sort of the symbol of big business to many of us, but yet they are becoming victims of their own capitalist system.
Anyone ever hear of Clickworkers? I guess I don't see the difference.
http://clickworkers.arc.nasa.gov/top
I never understood why people here want HD DVD to "win". Don't you people know that the evil "M$" is backing it?
Personally I want it to "lose" just because I don't like xbox360s.
"the government actually can do more than one thing at once."
I'll believe that after I see it doing even one thing successfully.
Can you say "unsecured wireless network"?
This, is brilliant.
I don't mean to suggest anything, but hypothetically, someone could go through and compile a list of politicians who support the DMCA, then find any content helpful to their campaigns on YouTube or whatever, and spoof takedown notices for that content. Then go to the politician's own website, find any videos they have, and send the politician himself takedown notices for those, preferably in the name of the politician's constituents. Then go the site of any organization which supports the politician and spoof more takedown notices in the politician's name. This way you create a huge mess for said politicians to clean up, and all as a result of their beloved DMCA.
Not to suggest anything of course.
I make a policy of distrusting anything I see anywhere. Especially if its on paper, because then I know that its "editor approved".
What if someone adds something to the article?
What is really needed is a way for people with verified credentials to approve certain content in articles, so that when new content is added the average reader can tell which content has been "approved of", and which content has not. If you just do it by version, then when Dick Cheney dies of a heart attack and I go in and add that to the article about him it suddenly "invalidates" the entire article until either a reader looks back in the version history (which the average reader has no idea how to do) and compares the two to see what was added, or until someone with the all mighty credentials comes along and "approves" it.
Whether we should rely on people just because they have credentials is a completely different question...
I think maybe he meant people who voted in this particular election. Wasn't very clear about that though.
"Do you think the NYPD spontaneously decided to spy on democrats"
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Do I think the NYPD spontaneously decided to try to prevent riots in NYC? I'm pretty sure thats their job. The number of people who hate the Bush administration happens to be greater than just about any other population of "haters", and as liberals (please note that I consider myself a liberal, and no fan of the Bush administration) they seem to be rather succeptible to mob mentality, and getting carried away.
Consider the 1999 WTO Conference - "The conclusion by many in Seattle was that the WTO convention was not worth hosting due to the economic damage (although minimal) caused by the protests. Controversy over the city's response to the protests resulted in the resignation of Seattle police chief Norm Stamper, and arguably played a role in Schell's loss to Greg Nickels and Mark Sidran in the 2001 mayoral primary election." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTO_Ministerial_Conf
Most people don't like losing their jobs, completely aside from the fact that the NYPD was just doing theirs (overzealously perhaps, but I really don't see some "evil Bush administration plot" here).
Lets see if we can "slashdot" this KinderStart thing. Everyone click that link, and/or write a script to hit it repeatedly.
I'm from Alaska, and whenever I travel to Washington I can typically just show my ID and not have to pay the sales tax. No paperwork involved.
I have a desktop on a mobile cart with a UPS running Dapper. I unplug its network cable daily, and I haven't rebooted that machine in at least a month. Also I have three computers running Ubuntu (Dapper on the mobile desktop, Edgy on my laptop, and Feisty on this, my main desktop) and Linux compatibility was never a consideration in buying the hardware. In fact I hadn't even heard of Linux when I built the first two. As far as I know the only hardware I own that Ubuntu doesn't support out of the box is my Creative Zen Touch, which I was foolish enough to install the MTP firmware on (and it works just fine after a bit of tweaking).